Amadeus (2026) — IQ Score 178/200
Amadeus (2026) has an IQ Score of 178/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Joe Barton (Black Doves) adapts Peter Shaffer's play across five Starz hours, with Will Sharpe as a febrile Mozart and Paul Bettany as the corroded-by-envy Salieri. The series visualizes the operas as production numbers and lets the rivalry play out across courts in Vienna; what it cannot escape is the 1984 Forman film, which compressed the same material into the form many audiences remember as definitive.
Critics scored 88% on RT against a 36% audience score — a measurable gap that captures the work's craft-over-narrative-novelty position.
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